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US Senate moves to protect Aids funding from cuts

Doctor Kenneth Ngure (left) explains an overview of HIV prevention technologies to freelance Journalist  Gatonye Gathure during a meeting between the editors and Kenya Medical Women association (KMA) at a Nairobi hotel on 20/12/17. [File, Standard]

The International Aids Society (IAS) has welcomed a bipartisan decision by the US Senate to protect the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) from proposed funding cuts.

US President Donald Trump’s had threatened to slash $400 million (Sh51 trillion). 

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